Re: Apple /// ?

[rogtha@delphi.com]

Lee Latham <englom@Bayou.UH.EDU> writes:
 
>Well, I just bought an Apple ///.  I had been looking to set up an Apple 
>II system, and happened upon this first, and since I had rarely even 
>heard of it I bought it.  What the heck is it?
>
>How does it relate to the Apple II and GS ?  I checked the faq and didn't 
>find anything, althought I guess I could have missed it.  
>
>And most importantly, can it run Apple II software?  
 
The Apple III was manufactured in the early 1980's as a stop-gap product
between expected declines in Apple II sales and the Lisa introduction.
It uses the operating system SOS (Sophisticated Operating System), which
functions very much like ProDOS. The earlier the III, the more problems
it is likely to have as the first ones were mechanical nightmares.
I've got one myself and it's a pretty cool machine. There's not much
software for it out there but it can run Apple II/II+ software with the
Apple II Emulation disk, which emulates a II/II+ with 48K and either
AppleSoft or Integer BASIC. I don't know about its relation to the
Apple IIGS but I do know it's a decent machine if you don't mind
being limited to only the small amount of III software and 48K
II/II+ software. Oh, and that built-in RS-232 port is nice, also.